Use the odbtp extension. It provides the best, easiest and maybe only support for SQL Server's UNICODE data fields within PHP. -- bob On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Juan Torres wrote: > How can I read from a SQL Server DB, a field of type 'nvarchar'. This field > contais japanese characters. > > thanks! > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php